Here is a strange story from Greece, about a little girl and her "twin"!
Twin found in nine-year-old's stomachA nine-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said.
Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo more than two inches long.
"They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumour would hide an embryo," hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.
The girl has made a full recovery, he said.
Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed foetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.
Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births.
The girl's family did not want to be identified, hospital officials said.
AP
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/twin-found-in-nineyearolds-stomach/2008/05/16/1210765106098.html-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following is a very unusual and unfortunate way to go....Spitting match proves deadlyA Swiss man died when he fell from a hotel balcony during a spitting match with a friend, a Swiss newspaper has reported.
The daily Blick said the 29-year-old man took a run-up from inside the room so he could spit further, but lost his balance and plummeted 6.4 metres to the street below. He died in hospital.
The man had suggested the contest when he and two friends returned from a disco to their hotel in Cadempino in Switzerland's Italian-speaking Ticino canton in the early hours.
One of the men went to sleep, but the two others decided to see who could spit furthest from the balcony of their room.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/spitting-match-proves-deadly/2008/05/14/1210444472552.html-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And here's what NOT to do with your barbeque!Man barbecues car by mistakeA man barbecued his own car by mistake following a mishap at a grill party in southern Germany, police said.
The 37-year-old poured a beaker of petrol onto the smouldering charcoal of his balcony grill in order to coax it into life, prompting a tongue of flame to shoot out.
A friend standing next to him panicked and dropped the cannister containing the petrol, causing it to ignite and spill on to the man's car parked below.
The car went up up flames.
Two other vehicles were damaged in the blaze, which police said caused no injuries but more than 30,000 euro ($50,000) worth of damage.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/man-barbecues-car-by-mistake/2008/05/12/1210444275678.html-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following story is rather unpleasant, especially if you plan to do what you shouldn't!Angry wife severes husband's penisA housewife in the Philippines cut off her husband's penis while he was sleeping in their house because she suspected he was having extra marital affairs, a police officer said.
Police officer Rolly Lipata said 37-year-old Lenly Bayabado had long suspected her younger husband's infidelity, prompting her to cut off his organ.
Lipata said neighbours rushed the screaming victim, 32-year-old Joelito, to a nearby hospital in the Manila suburban city of Pasig after the attack.
Bayabado underwent several hours of operation so his organ could be re-attached, but hospital sources said there was no guarantee he would still be able to perform sexually.
Bayabado denied he was cheating on his wife and said he will not file charges against her because he wants to keep the family intact for the sake of their four children.
DPA
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/angry-wife-severes-husbands-penis/2008/04/10/1207420587420.html-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following is a sort of reminder that justice is not always blind!!! Thieves do get their just rewards....Thief deposits loot with victimThree days after stealing a rare collection of coins, a thief in Germany took them to the bank for safe keeping - and delivered them into the hands of the man he had robbed.
"I don't think the thief was expecting that," said a spokesman for police in the western city of Dortmund.
Soon after the thief made the deposit, a bank worker handling the coins recognised them as the set worth some 50,000 euro ($A85,630) that had been stolen from his house.
Police tracked down the 36-year-old suspect and arrested him, securing a haul of other stolen goods in the process.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/thief-deposits-loot-with-victim/2008/04/16/1208025223077.html-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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